Will machine intelligence soon take over here? Has it already done so in the Milky Way?Wolfram thinks ETs will not want to travel to Earth - or anywhere else for that matter. In Wolfram's view,…Continue

You're kidding, right, Sarah? If history has taught us anything, it teaches that if something is of value or perceived to be of value, it can and will be fought over. This has been true of land, religion, ideology, and oil, among too many other things. Data may be somewhat less PHYSICAL, but it is no less substantial, and the very gearing that many nations including the US are doing right now to prepare for cyber-warfare demonstrates that the potential for conflict over data is already with us.